[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Betch family

[Debbie]

Diane,

The Crimean Website is located at:  http://www.icehouse.net/debbie

The Crimean extractions from the St. Petersburg records are located online
at:

http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/stpete/

Click on Neusatz and Zuerichtal for the Crimean files.

Debbie Beick
Crimean Area Coordinator
GRHS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Frank" <jkfrank at home.com>
To: "Diane Smith" <Diane_Smith at beavton.k12.or.us>;
<Ger-Poland-Volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Betch family


> At 09:32 AM 23/10/2001 -0700, Diane Smith wrote:
> >I am trying to find out where my German Grandmother actually came from. I
> >have her passport from 1913. She said she came from a village called
> >Joncoy in Besserabia. I have asked Mike Miller and he can not find any
> >village by this name. The family name was Betch or Betsch, or Batsch.
>
>
> This family is of course found in Bessarabia with the Betsch spelling.
The
> closest approximation I could find for Joncoy would be DSHANKOI (very,
very
> close in pronounciation) but the 5 places with that name are all in
Crimea,
> not Bessarabia.  According to the Pixel site, at least 2 Betsch families
> were living in the Neusatz / Simferpol region where you can find one
> Dshankoy at coordinates 45/02  34/43
>
> Is it possible she was born in Crimea but moved to Bessarabia where she
> obtained her passport?
>
> You can investigate the place name further at
> http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm
>
> There is a website for Crimean Germans but unfortunately I do not have the
> link on file.
>
>
>
>
> Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
> jkfrank at home.com
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